Astronomy Teaching and the Impact of NEA Asteroids on Earth

This paper aims to present and implement modern training methods, as efficiently as possible, through the e- Learning platforms Moodle, Googleclass, and Mooc for teaching an Astronomy course to students. An interdisciplinary approach, Mathematics-Geography-Geophysics-Astronomy leads even more to the explanation of the phenomena of appearance and development of the Solar System, as well as to find out the data referring to the age of our Solar System, approximately 5 billion years. We propose a brief presentation of the component of our Solar System, as well as the study of other small celestial bodies, such as NEA, Near Earth Asteroids and their impact on Earth. The paper presents several applications of Astrometrica software for the detection of NEA asteroids, and which have proven to be effective and useful, using active teaching-learning methods, such as learning through investigation and discovery. Some of these mixed teaching-learning methods have been successfully used to teach astrometry and astrophysics to students at the University of Craiova, using real astronomical data obtained from the Isaac Newton Astronomical Observatory in La Palma, Spain.